On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 16:05 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:02:03 +0200, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:
>>>> The reason I ask is that this format seems like one that we should make
>>>> as w3c standard for parser tests.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with .dat . Who made this format?
>>
>> .dat just means it's a data file, the extension does not really matter.
>> Ian designed the parser test format and wrote the first seventy or so
>> tests.
>
> So it seems we don't need to worry about using it then,
The tests as submitted are generated from the html5lib .dat files using a
script. Obviously other approaches are possible. The .dat files are
licensed under the MIT license so (IANAL) I would expect mechanical
translations to other formats to be under the same license.
If people are submitting new tests for the parser, I would expect them to
add the tests to the html5lib files and then regenerate the W3C copy.